Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6df7200e8a74e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 02:48:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ff4f710473533472ae9ee738640b703 SHA-1: 341482c282dd04f377ccf9c5184b09fc509c7243 SHA-256: fa6df7200e8a74e1167f05cabb828b9080bb029551a9e2ca58846de47108744b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm'. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=akutagawa+kappa+pdf', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users into clicking these links, which likely lead to phishing sites or malware downloads. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the exact payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=akutagawa+kappa+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.evelynwalters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453990/nuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.black-hawkcompanynjrotc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813991/cd643e02865a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.frescooperatheatre.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397934/5754352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gristleartgallery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739519/xusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1755/8426/files/fundamentals_of_general_organic_and_biological_chemistry_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8917/4432/files/sixitojegugidufozube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8240/7335/files/giwave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7993/1806/files/classification_des_actinomycetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6337/8081/files/35273254584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0866/3456/files/92867057524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9612/1251/files/wabizofozanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0992/3493/files/adult_ov_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3955/9573/files/nervio_glosofaringeo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5454/files/arabisch_alphabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3660/files/business_driven_information_system_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2691/files/fuzenepozosokuwifebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0193/6033/files/majujetexasijeben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000584e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x584E 4376 bytes
SHA-256: 71be004eb8032cece1257d69a78389c7ba09ed0f45875af4235d51d8e7e80e95
font_01_sfnt_off000067ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67AC 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 22dc13f4af020d8becd3ef4a85ddfee646b77812ad59ae6cd89a67748c699b28
font_02_sfnt_off00007909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7909 10028 bytes
SHA-256: d0f83469e804cd61c6e4cb3a65ca86c3a8f0e700d56e9cd19777902b690e3970